Blood
English 1001
11/25/2014
Should We Continue Stem Cell Research?
Stem cells are unspecialized cells that are capable of dividing in indefinite periods of time and are also capable of becoming tissue or organ specific cells under certain conditions. These cells have massive potential in medical research, offering us a source of renewable cells to replace or treat those destroyed by disease, genetic defects, and so on. Knowledge of how stem cells work would also give us a better understanding and more effective treatment for medical conditions such as cancer, which is an uncontrollable rate of cell division. Stem cell research is, however, a highly controversial topic mainly due to ethical issues, and the question …show more content…
This statement is indeed true, but only for human embryonic stem cell research. There are several other ways of creating stem cells, such as the usage of adult, pluripotent, or amniotic stem cells that would not require the usage or destruction of a human embryo.
Even with human embryonic stem cell research, arguing that it destroys a human life is easily countered. Most of the embryos that are used for embryonic stem cell research were created from in vitro treatments and had been in storage for a long period of time or were about to be destroyed. In 2006, it was also reported by the Advanced Cell Technology of Worchester, Massachusetts, that they were able to create a mouse stem cell from a mouse embryo without
destroying it. The following year, another technique was devised, by utilizing artificial viruses, a research team was able to reprogram human skin to act like embryonic stem …show more content…
The way I see it, is different, if you were to believe in this argument then would you not be saying that everyone but the high class is unintelligent? There are people born in lower class families but have brilliant minds, and there are many ways for people like that to climb up the economic ladder in our day and age. Not only that, is it truly a bad thing for the higher class to be allowed access to this before everyone else? The technology used to create their genetically enhanced children, or fix whatever defects that had occurred in their child's body would become out of date. Critics may also claim that the higher class would be allowed into higher seats of authority, taking the president's office or seats in the House, but is that bad? Is it a bad thing to have intelligent people be in charge, compared to how it had been, with individuals gaining power through